#Angband map software#
#Angband map code#
#Angband map license#

After several days of uneventful travel, you see the ancient ruins that mark the entrance to the Mazes of Menace.' – NetHack Guidebook, Chapter 1 'Introduction'Īngband shops are somewhat less fun than the ones in NetHack the game has a menu at each shop entrance. 'In the morning you awake, collect your belongings, and set off for the dungeon. 'You spend one last night fortifying yourself at the local inn, becoming more and more depressed as you watch the odds of your success being posted on the inn's walls getting lower and lower. The NetHack Guidebook makes clear that the entrance to the dungeon is nowhere near town thus one can guess that this is why leaving the dungeon without the Amulet ends your game: Some Angband variants even let you leave town to find other dungeons and towns. Central to the Angband is the Scroll of Word of Recall, an item that warps you between town and the deepest visited dungeon level. While NetHack players cannot leave the dungeon until they find the Amulet of Yendor, Moria and Angband players can repeatedly visit the town, using the services and shops. Moria added a town just outside the dungeon entrance. It may take weeks and months to play an Angband character from the beginning to the triumph over Morgoth (or to a late but permanent death). This is a consequence of the vastness of Angband's dungeon.

Know firstly that Angband is a much longer game than NetHack.

#Angband map license#

Meanwhile, UMoria has been licensed under the GNU General Public License too. The Moria license also does not contain explicit permission to modify the game, but modification is a strong tradition of the Angband community. The Angband OpenSource Initiative was a successful attempt to change this: on Janu, Angband was completely dual licensed under the Moria license, and the GNU General Public License. The practical effect of this is that operating systems like Debian originally classified NetHack as 'free' and Angband as 'non-free', and refused to include Angband when selling discs of the system. Angband and its variants use a license inherited from Moria which prohibits selling copies of the game.

#Angband map software#

NetHack is free and open source software under its NetHack General Public License. Thus their respective communities consider Angband and NetHack to be vanilla versions, in contrast to variants like ToME and SLASH'EM. NetHack changed the game even more with additions like dungeon branches.ĭevelopment of Angband and NetHack continues today both games have spawned many modified versions and patches. Hack, though retaining the Amulet, added features like persistent levels, pets, and shops. Angband lengthened the game and featured the goals of killing Sauron and then Morgoth. Moria deviated from Rogue by featuring a town above the dungeon and by not featuring the Amulet the goal was to kill a balrog. In Rogue, the goal was to obtain an Amulet of Yendor.

Meanwhile, on Unix appeared a free Rogue clone, Hack, of which NetHack is a variant.

The port from VMS and Pascal to Unix and C was Umoria, of which Angband is a variant.

For computers running VMS, the first Rogue clone was Moria, started in 1983.

#Angband map code#

Because Rogue did not include its source code and originally ran only on one platform, several Rogue clones came into existence. Rogue started as a binary for BSD, then a variant of Unix running on VAX hardware. These include lembas wafers, mithril objects, and monsters such as the hobbit and the balrog. Middle-earth is also the original source for Morgoth.Īngband and NetHack also share some elements from Middle-earth.

Ents appear in some Angband variants, but NetHack credits the Ent to the original source, Tolkien's Lord of the Rings. NetHack credits the dragon to Angband's ancestral game Moria, but the dragon still appears in Angband. In the source code (at do_name.c#line888), NetHack credits Morgoth to Angband. The hallucinatory monsters of NetHack include some monsters from Angband.